Consistent Smart TrainingConsistency is an important concept when it comes to developing health and fitness. Being consistent with proper training, a healthy diet, and overall lifestyle habits will not only provide improved health and fitness but it will help you remain injury-free too. In this post I want to discuss training consistency. A lot of people lack training consistency; they train a few days a week for a marathon and often these workouts are anaerobic for some if not all training sessions. Those who are consistently inconsistent will end up sick, injured, and run-down, while wondering why they can’t get faster, stronger, and more fit. Let’s learn how to be consistent!Being Consistent With TrainingThe way to train consistently is actually pretty simple – find the time to train and don’t train above your ability. Athletes who don’t train enough are just about as common as those who train too hard. Actually, I think it’s safe to say that most don’t train enough and when they train they train too hard. Most often when someone trains at their current ability they enjoy it a whole lot more because they’re not finishing the workout exhausted and maybe even in pain. They look forward to the next workout and will be much less likely to skip a workout.

Finding the time to train may be difficult for many but if you don’t have the time to properly train for a long race then don’t register for it in the first place. Instead, train for something you have time for. If you only have time for a fifteen minute workout every workday then that’s fine.

It’s easy to miss a workout and it’s easy for those missed workouts to add up quickly. Next thing you know, you trained one or two times in the past week. If you had been developing some fitness, it doesn’t take long to lose it. If you haven’t yet got into a progression of consistent training, a workout here or there isn’t going to do much to get your fitness going.

Most people live high-stress lifestyles and are already pressed for time, so they turn to high intensity training (HIT or HIIT – the second ‘I’ for interval), to try to slap on some quick fitness gains. Hey – the research says that this is the way to train today. All we need is about ten minutes a few times a week and maybe even a thirty minute session every so often. It’s what all the cool people are doing – train less and become more fit. Unfortunately, these gains from such high-intensity training bouts will be short-lived at best, as those who only train in such a way are recipes for disaster. That disaster is an injury. One HIIT workout a week for a few weeks is more risk than reward.SOURCED: http://sock-doc.com/consistency-smart-training/